Apple and Epic were locked in a battle because Fortnight (And Epic game) charged more for in-game credits on the Apple store than it did in-game through Epic's store (30% more).
Apple won the original battle that was put against them from Epic as they hosted a "Paid for" game on their store and therefore Epic couldn't make any profit from Apple users if they hadn't already made profit through their services. A model Apple used across all of its services.
Epic then made Fortnight free-to-play (With exclusive skins for players who had already bought it) which pulled that rug out from Apple's feet. Apple then took them to court stating that they were required monies from Epic for 'Hosting' their content in their store in the first place.
Long(ish) legal battle later and Apple lost, and some of the EU rules for microtransactions are now in place, by US law, on the Apple store.
In future, at the moment at least, it will now be more profitable for a company to release a free version of a game which they charge for later through optional DLCs/microtransactions which bypass the vendor of said gatekept community.
This will be appealed and there will be more tussle but, for the moment, Apple users would benefit from going for free AAA games as more money can be turned to more development of said games.
They've surprised their audiences every time they've released. Sometimes for the better, sometimes not.
But this particular game has been the target of all these Mary Sues, Uncle Toms and Aunt Jemimas (Their gender, libido and complexion normative allies too) for a long time. The original founders fled by 2020 and so it's been a cesspit of angry unskilled sex obsessed people for a while now.
We might get lucky and get a final DLC for GTA V with Lazlo doing a Dark Knight Harvey Dent and being the hero Gotham needs right now xD
Has Rockstar figured out that lecturing all of their customers like an auntie Denise is not the right way to sell the next instalment of this previously controversial, for all the right reasons, franchise?
A year to go still for all those hyped for playing this.
No doubt it will be consoles first, Rocksteady only, then an Epic release with Steam being around 2030.
As long as the content is good I've no issue with that. But with money being money and microtransactions having been their bread and butter for over a decade now, I'm not sure that's going to be the case this time around.
I sure hope I don't know anyone invested in Valnet xD
Abacus Data's first words on their website:
We are Canada’s most sought-after and influential full-service market and public opinion research agency.
Translation:
We say whatever shit you pay us to say.
Add that on top an apologetic, polite, unchallenging demographic - eh?
Well that's what he gets for being an atheistic, racist, homophobic, misogynistic, Trump supporting Nazi sycophant on Twitter who kicks kittens on little girl's birthdays.
I'm sure everyone in the industry will step forward and help him out since he's deep in their wool.
You expect the archetypal punching bag which made the ability to punch possible to get praise?
#RemoveAllStraightWhiteMen and give it 5 minutes. Bitches be cutting corners and backstabbing like it'd gone out of fashion.
We need a solid structure to rebel against, and it's got to be straight, white and male (Preferably Jewish for some reason).
I'm not a religious person. I've considered it greatly and it just isn't for me.
That said, I don't see why attacking religion is a good idea for anyone.
Firstly it upsets those within that religion and secondly those doing it aren't doing it for anything other than hatred.
Why not start a new religion rather than tear one down?
If history has taught us anything it is that religion, regardless of creed, comes with the might of god behind it.
That always ends in suffering for many people who had no horse in the game.
These "Two men holding hands" is two men sniggering at people who pray to their dead loved ones.
It won't be a nancyboy who delivers anyone from evil.
These child safety campaigners can't sell the babies in their care fast enough these days.
They have Keir and his advertising outlet (The BBC) working as best they can but these rape babies just keep on coming by the boatload.
Putting aside the fact that he looks like an effeminate taxidermist fantasy of a Harrison Ford and Elon Musk muppet hybrid abortion from Joan Rivers having being raped by CATS from Zero Wing but still somehow clung to life for a century doing a David Byrne/Madonna bootleg impersonation, this is the man who organised modern slave encampments throughout Africa which educated those farming coco only with how to better farm coco, denied babies their mother's natural breastmilk by giving them baby powder instead and fixed market pricing to eliminate any competition.
If "Stealing candy from a baby" could be personified, this is it!
It will be interesting to see how the Left kowtow to their new overlord, particularly with that slight Elon Musk look about him.
Nice choice of isometric side-scrollers!
I'm not sure if Batman (2D side-scroller) get a mention as you could batarang and swing in that. It also had two 2.5D transport levels and some puzzle levels too.
If it does get in then Strider deserves to be there too.
The various Battletoad games server a mention too (Both 2D and Isometric).
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It seems that the author, Justin Gest, doesn't blame Joe Biden for giving false hope during his 4-year tenure as POTUS (Which he should have done) and ruining the lives of so many. Instead this upheaval is somehow Trump's fault in their eyes and any repeated migration damage Southwards lies at his feet.
I don't blame good honest people taking a risk at having a better quality of life. But that opportunity wasn't given to them by Donald Trump.
It's a well known fact that criminals will exploit any weakness for their own gains and any of those genuine people looking to have a crack at the American dream were lied to by Biden and his administration. Discounting all the damage that criminals have done within the US, those people who only wanted a chance have been shat on by Democrats and anyone pointing that out is somehow labelled as an 'enemy'.
Instead of destroying eggs on his way out the door, perhaps Biden should have burned the carrots and suggested the stick.
All the other games studios will be shitting themselves just now. They'd either put everything on hold or pulled it forward, unfinished, because they didn't stand a chance against GTA.
Now all those plans will be wrought.
I'm sure that new girl who started in the public toilet cleaning services (Melisa or something or other) will be ecstatic that there's fresh shit to rub herself in while screaming at the mirror.